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Subject: TREASURES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TREASURE HUNT, by IDA MAY WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I seek
Last Line: Its golden lure at the end.
Subject(s): Treasures


ARCHAEOLOGY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching 'mid eastern ruins, groping slow
Last Line: Rarest, most precious treasure trove, a sword!
Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers; Treasures


AUCTION SALE - HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, by ADELE DE LEEUX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing much here!' they say. With careless glance
Last Line: All her young married life in one small dray.
Subject(s): Auctions; Treasures


BUCCANEERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft
Last Line: Is just three kids on a makeshift raft.
Subject(s): Pirates; Ships & Shipping; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers


CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king
Last Line: It took him unawares!
Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank
Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 2. TREASURE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My trunk brought home the silken shawl
Last Line: And on and on --
Subject(s): Danube (river); Rome, Italy; Travel; Treasures; Venice, Italy; Journeys; Trips


GORIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In gorias are gems
Last Line: And pale gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Courts & Courtiers; Gold; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Treasures


LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Treasure plies a feather
Last Line: And are heavenly things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Pleasure; Treasures; Heaven


SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now
Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology


SEVERUS TO TIBERIUS GREATLY ENNUYE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In places the water had thumbed the thick sunglow to patches
Last Line: To go under as I did, sliding down a sleek-shouldered dream, not otherwise.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Sea; Treasures; Ocean


SPANISH WATERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spanish waters, spanish waters, you are ringing in my ears
Last Line: By the loud surf of los muertos which is beating in my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Treasures


SUNKEN GOLD, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships
Last Line: The gleam of irrecoverable gold.
Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Shipwrecks; Treasures


SUNKEN TREASURES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the uneasy waves of life subside
Last Line: And bring a single jewel from its breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Tears; Treasures; Destiny


SUNSET IN TREASURE VALLEY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden stream reflects the gleam
Last Line: For aye in treasure valley.
Subject(s): Evening; Treasures; Sunset; Twilight


THE KEEPERS OF THE TREASURE, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because we dare behold the sun
Last Line: Of an unguessed awakening.
Subject(s): Spring; Strength; Treasures


THE MONEY DIGGERS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus saith the book - 'permit no witch to live'
Last Line: Symmes be your trusty guide, and robert kidd your guest.
Subject(s): Treasures


THE NIBELUNGEN TREASURE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was an ancient monarch
Last Line: Would quaff his fiery wine
Subject(s): Selfishness;treasures


THE PACIFIC, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The monarch of waters! The giant pacific!
Last Line: And the chaos of change in thy morn rolled away.
Subject(s): Hunting; Pacific Ocean; Treasures; Hunters


THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin'
Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down!
Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE RAGGED STOCKING, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you see this ragged stocking
Last Line: Than this stocking in my hand.
Subject(s): Treasures


THE TREASURE OF THE WISE MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the night was dark and the night was late
Last Line: When the robbers came to rob him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Night; Treasures; Bedtime


THE TREASURE-SEEKER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many weary days I suffer'd
Last Line: So shall peace return to thee!'
Subject(s): Peace; Soul; Treasures


THE YUKON'S SONG OF THE GOLD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! We are the waters that come from afar
Last Line: The cañons of unsought gold.
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Hunting; Treasures; Yukon Territory; Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Hunters


TREASURE, by ROBERT LAUDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dutchess glides from the dock
Last Line: Our blended images %offered gently by the waves
Subject(s): Treasures


TREASURE TROVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I played with the whispering rushes
Last Line: In a setting of silver rhyme.
Subject(s): Treasures


TREASURE TROVE, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today, three children passed my house
Last Line: "from an old elm tree?"
Subject(s): Children; Treasures; Childhood


TREASURE-TROVE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An evening palmer onward creeps the day
Last Line: As treasure-trove when I shall come that way.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Treasures


TREASURES, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: These things are mine: the whispering of trees
Last Line: A rainbow arch against the sky after a week of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Treasures


TREASURES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me count my treasures
Last Line: Whom I know at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Faith; Pain; Pity; Soul; Treasures; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery


TREASURES, by CLAIRE RICHCREEK THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His overalls hung on the hook by his hat, and I noticed his pockets
Last Line: And I thrilled as I thought of the fun and the joy such trivial things could give to a boy.
Subject(s): Treasures


WHERE MY TREASURE IS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lord of the living, when my race is run"
Last Line: My endless night
Subject(s): Treasures